Our Charitable Programs

Sponsor-A-Rider program aims to provide short-term financial relief (for Westernaire-related expenses) for families in financial crisis, and to ensure that riders are able to participate in their classes during tough financial times. Please consider donating to this worthy cause!

Sponsor any Westernaire horse, in memoriam or living, rental horse or owner horse, pony or draft. All money collected from this fundraising program goes directly to an encumbered fund for the Westernaire rental string, helping to ensure that the horses will always continue to have the tack, supplements, and state-of-the-art care that they need.

We've been busy digitizing the old Westernaires pictures, slides, and films, and we won't stop until we've got them all safely archived. We're seeking your Westernaire pictures to add to the digital archives too. If you have any old, or not-so-old, Westernaires pictures that you’d like to donate to the cause, please contact us.

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Coloradans have tremendous vitality and energy. They all seem to be athletes. Great horsemen, too. The Westernaires provided a whole Cavalry troop for a movie that I was working on in Colorado a few years ago. During the filming they put on a show for us. The jumping and formation riding was really spectacular.

— Norman Rockwell, talking about working alongside the Westernaires Cavalry team on the set of "Stagecoach" in 1966

Why can’t we all give more of our time to young people? We should not criticize them. We should give them the guidance that only our experience can provide. They’re in need of that, they want it, they relish having real discipline. I’d like to see more people helping the young people. More people making that a way of life after retirement when they can spend more of their time without the press of business. I’d like to see them spend it helping others, helping young people, helping to guide them. There are a lot of ways that it can be done.

— Elmer E. Wyland, Westernaires Founder and Director from 1949 until his passing in 1983